An Iowa school district apologized after a group of high school students distributed flyers asking middle schoolers about drugs, abortion and President Donald Trump’s fitness for office.
Rock Valley schools sent out a formal apology after multiple parents complained about the flyers, according to Rock Valley superintendent Chad Janzen, the Des Moines Register reported Wednesday.
The flyers included questions about friends who are gay, older siblings who have abortions and Trump’s fitness for office along with whether he should be impeached.
“Donald Trump has made it a common belief immigration from Mexico is an issue,” was included on the flyer’s list of questions. “Your friend is an illegal. Do you believe they, too, should be deported?”
After a number of middle schoolers came home and shared the flyers with their parents, they complained to the district that these kinds of questions were not appropriate for middle school children. A number of parents were also upset that their child would learn about these topics from their school rather than in the home where parents could have educated discussions with them about moral issues and values.
“In hindsight, we realize some of the topics may have been geared more for a high school audience [than] a middle school audience and we truly apologize for any confusion or misinterpretation of this activity,” Rock Valley middle and high school principal Nicole Roder said.
“We’re talking about the taking of an innocent human life, and I don’t think that’s a conversation to have with a 12-year-old without mom and dad around,” said Jacob Hall, who serves as a moderator of Sioux County Conservatives Facebook group.
Janzen said the effort was meant to be a positive learning experience that would inform and challenge students, but that the plan had not been executed properly, and that the “nature of this entire awareness campaign was very positive.”
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